Blood Lineage influences some key characters and fan favorites from the books in the later The Witcher series. There are certain choices that are made in this world that play an important role in the later seasons of The Witcher and have a critical impact on the plot. The Witcher creatorLauren Schmidt, the producers and I spent a lot of time planting new Easter eggs. We weave an intricate spider web of delicious history that spans thousands of years.
Said de Barra.
The series will tell about the events leading to the Conjunction of the Spheres, as well as the creation of a “prototype” of the witcher and the origin of the mysterious monoliths seen in The Witcher . It will be closely related to the original series, and the main character Seanchaí will meet Dandelion in a tavern and there will present the true version of the events that took place in the past.
Official description of the series from Netflix:
More than a thousand years before the creation of the world of The Witcher , seven outcasts from the world of elves undertake a bloody battle against an unstoppable force.
As mentioned above, The Witcher: Blood Lineage is set to premiere on Netflix on December 25. Declan de Barra is the showrunner while The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich is the executive producer. The cast includes Sophia Brown as Éile, Michelle Yeoh as Scían, Laurence O’Fuarain as Fjall, Minnie Driver as Seanchaí, and more.
